Running head: Huffman Trucking: Desktop Management / ERP
Huffman Trucking: Desktop Management & ERP Considerations
William Dumire
Sheryl Carter
Tracy Hunter
Jeremy Whitson
James Welty
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A native of Cleveland, Ohio, K. Huffman founded Huffman Trucking in 1936 with a single tractor-trailer. As a direct result of World War II, the growth of the company presented an increased demand for carrier services between the East Coast and the Midwest. Over the next 9 years (1945), Huffman Trucking’s fleet increased to 36 trailers and 16 tractors which helped strengthen the relationship with U.S. Government. Prior to the 1900 trains were used to carry freights that were transported over land, as they were efficient when moving a large quantity of freight within the urban centers. With the rapid growth of Huffman Trucking internal sales and the acquisition of several new regional carriers, the company was able to maintain a privately held position. Commercial Motor Vehicles are used in the trucking industry to transport and distribute commercial and industrial goods. Essential services such as the transport of large amount of raw material and finished goods are provided by the trucking industry, typically between retail distribution centers and manufacturing plants. However, insufficient infrastructure has been a major constraint to growth within the Huffman organization. The key challenge is to implement an effective desktop productivity application and an ERP solution that rapidly and consistently integrates with an improved infrastructure framework which will …show more content…
2008). The level of communication and interaction between project team members will also be reflected by the organizational culture. If the organizational culture of Huffman is to promote cooperation between team members and to provide opportunities for them to participate in decision making via tools such as brainstorming, there will be a high level of interaction between team members resulting in better coordination, productivity, morale, efficiency and generation of good ideas in the project related tasks.
A Culture Analysis can determine the relative effectiveness of Huffman Trucking’s innovations to optimize their organizational performance. The results will enable the organization to identify and implement effective culture-based innovations that improve the company’s performance and enhance their project management efforts. The correct identification of project constraints, the anticipation of their nature would enable Huffman to avoid the danger of over or under-rating their impact on the process of an ERP project
Huffman Trucking: Desktop Management & ERP Considerations
William Dumire
Sheryl Carter
Tracy Hunter
Jeremy Whitson
James Welty
University of Phoenix …show more content…
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, K. Huffman founded Huffman Trucking in 1936 with a single tractor-trailer. As a direct result of World War II, the growth of the company presented an increased demand for carrier services between the East Coast and the Midwest. Over the next 9 years (1945), Huffman Trucking’s fleet increased to 36 trailers and 16 tractors which helped strengthen the relationship with U.S. Government. Prior to the 1900 trains were used to carry freights that were transported over land, as they were efficient when moving a large quantity of freight within the urban centers. With the rapid growth of Huffman Trucking internal sales and the acquisition of several new regional carriers, the company was able to maintain a privately held position. Commercial Motor Vehicles are used in the trucking industry to transport and distribute commercial and industrial goods. Essential services such as the transport of large amount of raw material and finished goods are provided by the trucking industry, typically between retail distribution centers and manufacturing plants. However, insufficient infrastructure has been a major constraint to growth within the Huffman organization. The key challenge is to implement an effective desktop productivity application and an ERP solution that rapidly and consistently integrates with an improved infrastructure framework which will …show more content…
2008). The level of communication and interaction between project team members will also be reflected by the organizational culture. If the organizational culture of Huffman is to promote cooperation between team members and to provide opportunities for them to participate in decision making via tools such as brainstorming, there will be a high level of interaction between team members resulting in better coordination, productivity, morale, efficiency and generation of good ideas in the project related tasks.
A Culture Analysis can determine the relative effectiveness of Huffman Trucking’s innovations to optimize their organizational performance. The results will enable the organization to identify and implement effective culture-based innovations that improve the company’s performance and enhance their project management efforts. The correct identification of project constraints, the anticipation of their nature would enable Huffman to avoid the danger of over or under-rating their impact on the process of an ERP project